Stonewall Equality Limited,trading as Stonewall,is a lesbian,gay,bisexual and transgender (LGBTQ) rights charity in the United Kingdom. It is the largest LGBT rights organisation in Europe.
Christine Burns is a British political activist best known for her work with Press for Change and,more recently,as an internationally recognised health adviser. Burns was awarded an MBE in 2005 in recognition of her work representing transgender people. In 2011,she ranked 35th on The Independent on Sunday's annual Pink List of influential lesbian,gay,bisexual,and transgender people in the United Kingdom.
Laverne Cox is an American actress and LGBT advocate. She rose to prominence with her role as Sophia Burset on the Netflix series Orange Is the New Black,becoming the first transgender person to be nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award in an acting category,and the first to be nominated for an Emmy Award since composer Angela Morley in 1990. In 2015,she won a Daytime Emmy Award in Outstanding Special Class Special as executive producer for Laverne Cox Presents:The T Word,making her the first trans woman to win the award. In 2017,she became the first transgender person to play a transgender series regular on U.S. broadcast TV as Cameron Wirth on CBS's Doubt.
Paris Lees is an English author,journalist,presenter and campaigner. She topped The Independent on Sunday's 2013 Pink List,came second in the 2014 Rainbow List,and was awarded the Positive Role Model Award for LGBT in the 2012 National Diversity Awards. Lees is the first trans columnist at Vogue and was the first trans woman to present shows on BBC Radio 1 and Channel 4. Her first book,What It Feels Like For a Girl,was published by Penguin in 2021.
Transgender rights in the United Kingdom have varied significantly over time.
Munroe Bergdorf is an English model and activist. She has walked several catwalks for brands including Gypsy Sport at both London and NYC Fashion Weeks. Bergdorf was the first transgender model in the UK for L'Oréal,but was dropped within weeks after a racial row. In February 2018,she was appointed as an LGBT adviser to the Labour Party,but resigned the following month. Bergdorf appeared in the Channel 4 documentary What Makes a Woman,which aired in May 2018.
Charlotte Mary Deane is an English Professor of Structural Bioinformatics and the former Head of the Department of Statistics at the University of Oxford. Deane was appointed as Executive Chair of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) on 16 November 2023.
Jessica Alice Feinmann Wade is a British physicist in the Blackett Laboratory at Imperial College London,specialising in Raman spectroscopy. Her research investigates polymer-based organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs). Her public engagement work in science,technology,engineering,and mathematics (STEM) advocates for women in physics as well as tackling systemic biases such as gender and racial bias on Wikipedia.
Sally Le Page is a British evolutionary biologist and science communicator. She is best known for making educational science content on YouTube,both for her own channel and for collaborations with groups such as General Electric and Rooster Teeth. She completed her PhD at the University of Oxford researching sexual selection.
Renée Hložek is a South African cosmologist,Professor of Astronomy &Astrophysics at the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy &Astrophysics at the University of Toronto,and an Azrieli Global Scholar within the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. She studies the cosmic microwave background,Type Ia supernova and baryon acoustic oscillations. She was named a Sloan Research Fellow in 2020,and received the Rutherford Memorial Medal from the Royal Society of Canada. Hložek identifies as bisexual.
Suzanne Lyn Sheehy is an Australian accelerator physicist who runs research groups at the universities of Oxford and Melbourne,where she is developing new particle accelerators for applications in medicine.
Irene Mary Carmel Tracey is Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford and former Warden of Merton College,Oxford. She is also Professor of Anaesthetic Neuroscience in the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences and formerly Pro-Vice-Chancellor at the University of Oxford. She is a co-founder of the Oxford Centre for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain (FMRIB),now the Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging. Her team’s research is focused on the neuroscience of pain,specifically pain perception and analgesia as well as how anaesthetics produce altered states of consciousness. Her team uses multidisciplinary approaches including neuroimaging.
Sophie Cook is a British author,broadcaster,photographer and politician.
Rachel Tanner is an immunologist working at the University of Oxford. She won the UK 'Women of the Future' Award for Science in 2019.
ChloëN. Duckworth is a British archaeological scientist and reader in the School of History,Classics and Archaeology,Newcastle University,and a presenter of The Great British Dig.
Renée Watson is an Australian-born science communicator and entrepreneur. She is the founder of The Curiosity Box.
Izzy Jayasinghe is the Head of the Department of Molecular Medicine in the School of Biomedical Sciences at the University of New South Wales,and a Visiting Fellow at the University of Sheffield,where she was previously a UKRI Future Leader Fellow. Her research focuses on super resolution microscopy,biophysics,cardiac muscle and microscopy instrument development. In addition to her scientific research and teaching,she is a strong advocate for gender equality and diversity in academia.
The following is a timeline of transgender history. Transgender history dates back to the first recorded instances of transgender individuals in ancient civilizations. However,the word transgenderism did not exist until 1965 when coined by psychiatrist John F. Oliven of Columbia University in his 1965 reference work Sexual Hygiene and Pathology;the timeline includes events and personalities that may be viewed as transgender in the broadest sense,including third gender and other gender-variant behavior,including ancient or modern precursors from the historical record.
Vyjayanti Vasanta Mogli is an Indian transgender activist,RTI activist,singer and motivational speaker. She intervened in the “Suresh Kumar Kaushal &Other vs Naz Foundation &Others”case in the Supreme Court in 2014 in which she highlighted the deleterious effects of conversion or reparative therapy on queer people through her affidavit.
